Overview
- Intro/Context
- Forests are globally important
- Anthropocence effects
- Global forest loss and gain and change
- Global greening = India(Agriculture) + China(Forests)
- Economics*Ecology = Landscape Extended Models
- Network Analysis of China’s Greening
- Global Scale
- Local Scale
- Landscape = Chen 2019
- Resilience Analysis of China’s Forest LE-MRIO
- Conclusions and Future Work
- Acknowledgements
Forests are Important Globally
- biodiversity
- water and nutrient cycling
- carbon storage
- resources(wood, food)
- culturally
The Anthropocene
- Humans = dominant global impact -> Anthropocene
- Global = Climate Change
- Indirect Effects Significant
In the Anthropocene, Economy is Global Ecology
- Economic trade data is a window into human impacts
- Brief history of IO and ENA analyses
- Global Trade Models
- Trade Networks MRIO = Sectors + Regions
- Environmental Extensions
- Forested Landscapes and Embodied Trade Networks
Interactions/Trade = Complex Systems
- Indirect effecs and The far reach of the city
- Complex systems = many players and indirect effects matter (surprising)
How do we study forests in this context?
Background: Networks are Everywhere
Background: Networks are Everywhere

Background: Networks are Everywhere

Background: Ecological Network Analysis
- Ecological network theory provides predictions and metrics (Lau 2017)
- Systems theory provides strategies for inteventions
- ENA <- Odums, MacArthur, Ulanowicz, Patten,
- SNA -> ecological networks (Watts and Strogatz, etc.)
- Structure linked to function (Donella Meadows)
Research: Why Chinese Forests?
- Work = Forest Land Embodied in Trade
Global forest loss and gain and change
Global greening
Global greening = India(Agriculture) + China(Forests)
- India is greening agriculturally
Global greening = India(Agriculture) + China(Forests)
- China is greening through reforestation
A Brief History of Forest Time in China
- China is big and diverse (Tropical to Alpine/Boreal)
- Long history of human habitation in China
- Historically, two primary regions of forestry
- Forest conservation impacts harvest
- Flows within China and among countries globally important
Research: Why Chinese Forests?
